Arts and Entertainment

5 Awesome Photos From Brooklyn This Week 12/26/13

Here are our picks for the 5 awesome Twitter pics from Brooklyn this week. Have one you like? Leave a link in the comments below or hit us on Twitter @brooklybugle:

Yusef Lateef, 1920-2013.

My introduction to the music of Yusef Lateef, who died Monday at 93, came in 1967, when I was a first year law student. My dorm neighbor, Bob Bell, was a jazz aficionado. I knew next to nothing about jazz. I’m not sure how it came about: I may have bee…
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The Week Everyone Lost Their Minds Over Whole Foods In Brooklyn

Whole Foods opened its long anticipated store at 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Gowanus on Tuesday (12/17). As expected, people went a little crazy over it.

Have you visited yet?

The Tale of the Tweets after the jump.

Gram and Emmylou; Emmylou, Dolly, and Linda

When I go for walks, I usually take my iPod set in the “shuffle” mode. Because of my eclectic interests in music, this sometimes leads to odd concatenations, as on a recent walk during which the Sinfonia from Verdi’s Nabucco was followed immediately by…
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Heather Quinlan’s NY Accent Film “If These Knishes Could Talk ” Covered On FOX 5

FOX 5 10:00 News spent time in the Heights last night interviewing BHB’s Heather Quinlan about her New York accent documentary, If These Knishes Could Talk. They also did a little man-on-the street action—see if you can spot the loc…
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City” by Robin Nagle

As a long-time resident of New York City I knew two things about New York City’s Sanitation Department: its…

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu

Information wants to be free. The Internet is different. Net neutrality. Or, as Tim Wu puts it in his…

Local Dancers Breathe New Life into Death in “Borrowed Prey: Part II”

A long-held taboo becomes a source of transformation in Carrie Ahern’s newest piece, as the dance and performance artist…

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Heart Broke In” by James Meek

Two organisms living together. Sometimes, when each organism gets something from the other, we call it symbiosis. Other times,…

Cleaning Up in Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights has never felt so fresh. Just in time for the holidays, the bustling Brooklyn Heights intersection of Clark and Henry is about to smell a whole lot better, thanks to local soap makers Ross Caudill and his fiancé Joanna Maltese. Named after the famed intersection, Clark & Henry recently opened as an online […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)